Vol 8 Issue 34 ~ Tradition Catholic Newsletter
Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
August 22, 2015 Immaculate Heart of Mary
No consequences for sin?
Dear Reader:
Can one look at the state of the world and be happy? Can one look at one’s own family and be happy? Can one look at oneself and be happy? Do I really think I can sin there be no consequences? I tell my children to sin and I expect no consequences both from their being scandalized and in doing what I say? The world turns its back on God and expects no consequences (though the world is experiencing more natural disasters then ever). The Church has always had days of penance to ask God not to chastise the world for its sins, imitating Moses to spare the Israelites. There is still the Major and Minor Litanies (Rogation days) to remind the Catholic—though some may rather look at the First Fridays and Reparation to the Sacred Heart. Today one considers the Immaculate Heart of Mary—a devotion to draw not only the sentiments toward a Mother’s heart to those who have not been touched by the sufferings of her Son. Yes, charity has grown cold (cf. Matt. 24:12), frigid in fact. The murder of infants, the murder of the aged and sick, the plight of so many left to be slaughtered by anti-Christian forces no longer touches the heart which is distracted and consumed by thoughts of sensual pleasure, hatred, revenge, greed and power. These, with the perennial pride of knowledge, are the gods the world serves. Yet none of these can answer the problems man has because they are the problem. None of these can avert the catastrophes of that man suffers because man was made for God and separated from God He cannot help man.
I can point the finger at the world—but I am part of the world as long as I refuse to completely serve God rather than the world. I do this by not just saying Lord, Lord (cf. Matt.7:21), but living that faith I believe in that tells me how I must live. I owe it to God in gratitude for all He has done for me. Think of the cured lepers read at the Gospel on Sunday.
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